Resistance to New York Yankees’ ‘evil empire’ grows

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Dee Gordon, of the Dodgers, scores a run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in a spring training gameMark Duncan/AP

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Magic Johnson, the former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star, has a stake in the Dodgers and is the public face of the ownership groupRALPH D. FRESO/REUTERS

Tom DartHouston, Texas

Published at 12:01AM, April 1 2013

So fond are the New York Yankees of their merciless reputation that they went
to court to defend their claim to the phrase “Baseball’s Evil Empire”.

After the club presented evidence including the frequent playing of music from Star
Wars at Yankee Stadium, a panel of judges ruled that “there is only one
Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees”.

However, all empires must crumble and as the 2013 season starts, there is a
new power in Major League Baseball (MLB), one richer and more ambitious even
than the Yankees.